A long time coming

For those of us who’ve been talking and writing about responsible business and sustainability for 25+ years – not to mention the environmentalists who’ve been going at it since the Seventies – the one question we have for mainstream politicians, now putting climate change centre stage, is What The Hell Took You So Long?

Ed Milliband in Prospect (July 2019) explains the delays and back downs as well as opportunities ahead. I truly hope we’re at the cusp of a green industrial revolution the UK can and will lead. Having a vision and strategy that maximise the benefits of climate action – not only for the planet, but employment, cost of living, health and wellbeing, and ok, growth of the economy too – might also have the benefit of bridging the nation’s increasingly ugly divides.